Famous Quotes

"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."

Amos Bronson Alcott on Mom

More quotes about Mom

• "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

  George Washington on Mom

• "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

  Jessica Lange on Mom

• "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

  Mark Twain on Mom

• "Men are what their mothers made them."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom

• "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

  Pablo Picasso on Mom

More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

• "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

• "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

• "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

• "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

• "Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."